Key Resources for Physics
The following databases contain a variety of material, including journal articles, for your specific subject area. The brief descriptions beneath the titles will explain what each hold. To access, click on the title.
- American Institute of Physics Journals This link opens in a new windowAccess to journals from the American Institute of Physics
- American Physical Society Journals This link opens in a new windowProvides the international physics community with peer-reviewed research journals, news and commentary about the latest research published in the Physical Review journals, news about and for members, information about physics and its place in the world.
- arXiv This link opens in a new windowOpen access to over 880,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
- IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowAccess to journals, transactions, letters, magazines and conference proceedings on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics.
- Institute of Physics Journals (IOP) This link opens in a new windowSearch electronic journal articles from the Institute of Physics.
- Kanopy (now via Library Search) This link opens in a new windowYou can now look for Kanopy films using Library Search. The benefit of this is that it will also search across our other film collections, to make sure that you don't miss out. Simply enter your search terms and select 'Video' from the drop down list at the end of the Library Search bar.
- Nature This link opens in a new windowAllows you to search for articles in journals published by Nature Publishing Group.
- Royal Society Journals This link opens in a new windowPublishes seven journals, covering the breadth of the biological and physical sciences, as well as the history and philosophy of science.
- Science This link opens in a new windowThe world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news and commentary.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowFull text and abstracts from over 2,500 journals in all fields of science and social sciences such as economics, management and business.
- Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, which provides access to academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents from 1788–present.
Advanced Features: citation analysis, author profiles, journal metrics; data export and analysis, search alerts.
Subjects: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering ; Life and Health Sciences ; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics ; Biological, Agricultural; Environmental Sciences.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowAccess to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowAccess to a broad and deep multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
Other Resources
- SCOAP3 RepositoryFreely search, browse and download all Open Access articles sponsored by the international SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) initiative.